Reports- Rule 53

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▶ 13:16 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: There are none. We have none, but I will take this opportunity

▶ 13:25 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: to announce the committee assignments for 2019 each alderman received a printout of these assignments and i will read them for the record the appropriations committee which is a committee

▶ 13:34 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: of the whole will be chaired by alderman Letter garabedian with vice chair alderman Boisselle the finance committee will be chaired by alderman Bewtra with vice chair alderman medeiros members alderman forbes wright and zwergo the health education and welfare committee will be chaired by alderman mortimer with vice chair alderman Letter garibedian and members alderman Boisselle mcmaster and Tramontozzi committee on legal and legislative matters will be chaired by alderman wright with vice chair alderman butra and committee members alderman forbes medeiros

▶ 14:10 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: and zwergo the protection and license committee will be chaired by alderman mcmaster with vice chair alderman mortimer and committee members alderman Boisselle Letter garabedian and Tramontozzi

▶ 14:20 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: the committee on public service will be chaired by alderman Zwirko with vice chair alderman forbes and members alderman Bewtra medeiros and wright the committee on public works will be chaired by alderman Tramontozzi with vice chair alderman Boisselle and committee members alderman Letter garabedian mcmaster and mortimer in addition aldermen serve roles on several commissions

▶ 14:40 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: committees and as Aldermanic reps and liaisons those will primarily be staying the same as they were last year with a couple of small changes not small changes Alderman Forbes will take the Aldermanic rep position on the Public

▶ 15:03 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: Safety Building Commission the seat that he previously held on the water and sewer rate committee will be held by Alderman Bewtra and finally the board liaison to the school committee will be held by alderman medeiros all the others will remain the

▶ 15:23 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: same that they were in 2018. thank you moving on to reports under rule 53 from any of those

▶ 15:31 Robert A. Boisselle: committees or boards alderman boycelle i have a report from the traffic commission on their meeting of december 19th uh the new the business that was occurred at that particular time there There were four agenda items. The first one was a request by residents to add weekly restrictions on Richardson Road from Marvin Road to Renwick Road and Renwick Road to the city limit to prevent long term commuter parking. There seems to be, was a problem concerning commuter car parking in the day, all day long, and what they've put now, they're going to be having one hour parking between 7 and 10 AM. and except for Saturdays and Sundays, and the order was passed to put in, to put in the parking restrictions in that particular area. Second item on the agenda was petition request made by several residents of Whittler Street and Baxter to make that intersection a four-way stop. Currently, it's a two-way on Whittler Street, and the petition was denied. There was a number of individuals who came forward in the testimony of the hearing that the stop sign itself is blocked by a tree

▶ 16:52 Speaker 3: and DPW will be trimming the area on both stop signs

▶ 16:54 Robert A. Boisselle: in that area and the four-way stop sign was failed through the commissioners and so forth. Also, they showed that the average speed on the streets was 20 miles per hour and the traffic study also showed also show there's an average about 300 cars a day at that point next item was the city request to make the west side of Benton Street from West Emerson to North Cedar Park and no parking any time and that was passed by the Commission at

▶ 17:30 Robert A. Boisselle: the meeting the last item on the agenda was a crosswalk across Lebanon Street between Grove Street and Park Street there were a number of residents that came forward to give testimony on the traffic everyone knows it's a second highway through Melrose besides Main Street so it is a pretty busy street and there's actually no crosswalks between Grove and Park Street so there are a number of streets that were indicated to be identified for crosswalks Beach Avenue Appleton Malvern and app and Appleton again but Malvin fell aside because it seems to be a very high accident rate over a five-year period there's been 77 crashes and 14 injuries occurring that particular site on

▶ 18:27 Robert A. Boisselle: Lebanon and Malvern area and the final two streets that came or that were

▶ 18:34 Robert A. Boisselle: selected were Beach and Appleton for crosswalks right now the concept is one of them will have we selected but there will be trying for two of them at that particular site the beach in Appleton if funding can be picked up to do the crosswalks it's an average about seven seven to ten thousand dollars to do crosswalks that's in case you have to put it the handicap access to the sidewalks and so forth so right now they're looking for funding but those two streets Beach and Appleton will were selected to have crosswalks depending on funding and that's the end of that particular session thank you thank you

▶ 19:16 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: any further reports Alderman Lipper-Garabedian sure as outgoing liaison to the

▶ 19:20 Kate Lipper-Garabedian: school committee I just wanted to flag that they are meeting tomorrow night their meeting is at 7 o'clock and for the purposes of our consideration one of the things that will be on the agenda is an initial conversation about the fiscal 20 budget so the superintendent has prepared her fiscal 20 budget message it's available publicly on their agenda it's worth printing out and taking a look it includes a brief breakdown of budget a versus budget B depending on how conversations and the vote for the special election go in April so that'll be an initial conversation and then they'll continue to meet on that throughout the winter thank you thank you any further reports moving on to the